Claire Debono
Representation: UK
Maltese soprano, Claire Debono graduated with an MMus from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with Laura Sarti. Recent operatic roles have included Anne Trulove The Rake’s Progress for Théatre de la Monnaie, European and New York tour of Ilia Idomeneo with Les Arts Florissants, including performances at the Lincoln Centre, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Peralada Festival and Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Hanako Hanjo and Despina Cosi fan tutte for Opéra de Lyon, concert performances as Zerlina Don Giovanni for Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie on their tour of Japan, Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro for English National Opera and Opéra de Lyon, Unzellman in Camilleri’s The Maltese Cross in St. Germain, Paris, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Amore in Il Ballo Delle Ingrate for Birmingham Opera Company and Esmeralda The Bartered Bride cover for Glyndebourne Festival.
Concert performances include a Tour of Europe and New York with William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix, Mozart et Le Concert Spirituel tour of Europe, Morocco and Turkey including performances at Théâtre du Châtelet, and London Barbican, a programme of Charpentier and Lully motets at the Carnegie Hall, Ambronay and the Chapelle Royale de Versailles with Les Arts Florissants, recitals in France and Corsica for the Festival d’Aix en Provence, Ambassadorial Concert, Malta, BBC Radio 3's In Tune and concerts at St. James Piccadilly, London with guitar duo ¡Canto vivo! and Unsuk Chin’s Cantatrix Sopranica for the Settembre Musica Festival (Milan and Turin) with The London Sinfonietta.
Future engagements include Vespina in Haydn’s L’infedelta Delusa at the Aix en Provence Festival, Minerva and Amore in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria at the Teatro Real, Madrid, La Gloire, Phenice and Lucinde in Lully’s Armide for Théatre de Champs- Elysées, European tour of a programme of Purcell sacred music with Les Arts Florissants, Israel in Egypt with Emanuelle Haim at The Edinburgh Festival and Mozart C Minor Mass with the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Paavo Jarvi. In 2009 Claire will make her US operatic debut as Stratonica in Graupner's Antiochus und Stratonica for Boston Early Music Festival.
Claire’s discography includes Le Jardin des Voix (EMI/Virgin Classics) and Harmonia Sacra (EMI/Virgin Classics).
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